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January 2005

  • Dry reading (29 Jan 05)
    One of my annual labours is to to prepare Australia's annual Report on the Operation of the Aged Care Act 1997 the latest edition of which was published this week ...
  • Letting go (27 Jan 05)
    I asked my singing teacher friend to be brutal in her first assessment of my voice today. She tested my range resonance harmonic perception etc. and seems to think that ...
  • Che (26 Jan 05)
    Our new apartment is wired for access to 24/7 broadband internet cable TV and telephone so we joined up; it's much cheaper now in Australia than a few years ago. ...
  • Oz day (26 Jan 05)
    Today is Australia Day. As The Age said this morning it is "a day but not a date to celebrate." The importance of having a national day is obvious but ...
  • Unfinished journey (22 Jan 05)
    Ginninderra Press is a valued local Canberra local publisher that includes many volumes of poetry among its offerings. It recently publishedUnfinished journey collected poems 1932-2004 a new anthology of the ...
  • Busy building (21 Jan 05)
    No posts for a few days as I've been concentrating on the rebuild of the site -- including a recheck of all the pages for compliance with XHTML 1.0 Transitional.. ...
  • The tsunami and the "Why?" (15 Jan 05)
    The tsunami disaster of 26 December 2004 has provoked questions about "Why does God permit such suffering?" or "How can God exist in the face of such evil?" I am ...
  • A brave voyage (14 Jan 05)
    In my earlier post I mentioned in passing my grandmother's migration to Australia in 1921. Which set me to looking up some more information about her voyage on R.M.S. (Royal ...
  • Seven pillars (11 Jan 05)
    I mentioned earlier a forgotten treasure unearthed while tidying up my books. Here's another one though not forgotten. My copy of T.E. Lawrence's Seven pillars of wisdom: a triumph (New ...
  • Letters of credit? (09 Jan 05)
    Letters in the newspapers yesterday (8 Jan.) made the the point I was trying to make about the unevenness of our overseas aid. ...
  • Peace when? (07 Jan 05)
    For a fleeting moment I though I had found a more valuable celebration for 1 January than New Year's Day. The Vatican at least has marked 1 January as World ...
  • Uneven compassion (07 Jan 05)
    It's good that the Australian Government has been able to commit $500 million in grants and $500 million in long-term interest-free loan to help Indonesia respond to the destruction in ...
  • And after Christmas ... (06 Jan 05)
    6th January the first day after Christmas and the feast of the Epiphany the manifestation of Christ to the world: we recall the story of the 'wise men from the ...
  • Tsunami, prayer and the existence of God (05 Jan 05)
    Rowan Williams (more properly His Grace the Right Honourable and Most Reverend Dr Rowan Williams Archbishop of Canterbury - pictured) wrote this excellent but subtle piece which was published in ...
  • 8th, 9th and 10th of Christmas (03 Jan 05)
    To me New Year's day is pretty much a non-event; a welcome holiday but otherwise just a number on the calendar. More importantly the first of January is the eighth ...
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